WE have canning tomatoes 20lb box/$20 or 50lb / $30it is already the last pick up week for our summer CSA and we are still packing zucchinis and warm weather crops. The winter CSA will start in two weeks, to give you a week to eat up all the veggies and get hungry for more. In the mean time we can focus on harvesting the roots. We will have potatoes, carrots, beets, garlic, kale/cabbage, tomatoes, parsley and some winter squash for the basic share and parsnips, celeriac and sunchokes on top of that for the full share. Cost for basic share $150 ($280 large size) and $240 for the Full Share ($460 for the large). We will make an order from later this week.

The warm weather has helped us a lot to bring on the fall roots and to keep the tomatoes and zucchinis going. We were happy for the rain yesterday and got fully soaked harvesting all day for market and the CSA. It was warm rain, could be a lot more miserable. I found a "new" tractor, a John Deere 2020 from the 1970's. We named her Joan Deere. After looking for a month on Craigslist and the Free Trader I had asked Jim Curtis from Leberge and Curtis and they had just the right tractor for the right price.The carpentry class at Little river school is building us a roof for the washstand, little by little every week. We had put in the slab a few years ago and saved for the roof. It is going to be such a luxury to have a roof for the fall washing. We had to hurry and built new barn door that would not hit the new posts. busy, busy...We are in the process of getting another cabin for gardeners and visitors built. So there is a lot of planning going on, taking all my brain power, size, material, where .... If all goes well it will be in place in November!We caught four porcupines of various sizes that were eating the cilantro. I think there are still more, but we made a dent. The taxi took them to a new woods.

Phoebe is home!

Class building washstand roof

Emma packing CSA

New barn door

Look who ate the cilantro

Sudan grass cover crop

Baby Phoebe is home for a month now and growing well. We are so glad she made it home. The parents are happy and tired. Brother Milo, 2 years old tomorrow is so much fun talking a mile a minute and playing in the puddles.The cows are still at Jeff's place and Felix is a sweet heart, the nicest calf we ever had. He likes his veggies and comes right for them and so does Carol.

This is it for now. Thank you so much for letting us grow your veggies! It makes such a difference to have people excited about it.